Mike Kenney says:
>The Internet was never intended to replace journals as a publishing medium.
>It's original purpose was *communication*. Few papers are actually
>published on the Internet but draft copies are passed around all the time.
>It is also the perfect medium for distributing experimental data.
Well, yes, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be used as a
publishing medium whatever might have been "intended" -- I wonder whether
anyone ever intended that it be used for a discussion like this. In some
cases it already _is_ being used as a publishing medium: there are journals
that offer electronic versions, and others coming online _as_ electronic
journals. Why not? It's a hell of a lot more efficient than shipping all
those blocks of unread paper around the world. I don't see why the net
shouldn't include space for both what I'm writing now and what I'll be
sending off to, say, _Poetics_ or _Research in the Teaching of English_ next
month.
-- Russ
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